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  Green Music Australia - the organisation I started 14 years ago - is looking for a new CEO! This is an amazing position for the right amazing candidate! Is it you? Is it someone you know? Please have a look and pass this around. https://www.ethicaljobs.com.au/members/greenmusicaus/chief-executive-officer-flexible-location

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  I see so much of the effort of the #climate movement is once again being effectively contained by the obsession with the global Climate COP approaching. Re-upping this piece I wrote last year (after threatening to write it for years), systematically detailing why I believe it's a waste of time: https://in-between-days.ghost.io/all-climate-cops-are-b-stards/

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  A post in which I pretend to talk about Arendt and temporality, but mostly want to just share some photos of gorgeous #orchids I took this morning :-) And make a #DadJoke in the title... https://in-between-days.ghost.io/well-this-is-orchid/

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  This post won't necessarily make me popular, but I wrote it anyway. https://in-between-days.ghost.io/zionism-is-a-shibboleth/

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  HUGE news Kind of shocking that it's up to the High Court to make decisions democratic governments are proving incapable of making. And kind of shocking that it was a split decision. But massive congrats to everyone who made this happen. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/oct/07/mount-pleasant-coalmine-case-high-court-climate-change-hunter-valley

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  A partial reply to a partial truth in an important post from @kossamaras.bsky.social What truths do we need to tell in politics? How deep can we go? Have we returned to an old world? Or have we entered something radically new? What possibilities remain? https://in-between-days.ghost.io/telling-the-truth-in-politics-in-this-economy/

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  I wrote this on Tuesday The result for Zack Polanski is worse than expected. My instinct is that the low turnout is a sign that a bunch of potential Greens voters didn’t bother, partly because of the Zionism motion, and partly because the momentum has evaporated. How many times will we repeat this cycle? - Get excited by a new leader - Recruit new members - Direct all the energy into electoral campaigning and ignore community building - Watch as one or two unforced errors and huge and well-f...

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  Late to this party, but yes, it appears a bunch of my music has been scraped and stolen by the AI anti-art theft machines. Mostly off Signs of Life, but a few songs from This Machine, including the title track and its video. https://www.theatlantic.com/category/ai-watchdog/?q=FourPlay+String+Quartet&aid=2483b169-7f7b-49ca-b96e-3fe5e510575a

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  Audre Lorde told us that "the master's tools will never dismantle the master's house". But these days, we're not even trying to dismantle it. Most of the time, we're renovating it, polishing the floorboards. While it's on fire! Join me as I play with this powerful metaphor, matching it up with Vanessa Machado de Oliveira's "house of modernity", recent literature on transition vs transformation, and, of course,...

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  “My theory of change is to be” I have just had the immense privilege of spending the last week in the Yarra Valley on a Global Optimism Climate Leaders' Retreat led by Christiana Figueres - for six years the world's top climate negotiator as Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change - and the abbott and a dozen monastics from Plum Village - the Vietnamese Buddhist tradition founded by Thich Nhat Hanh. I do not intend to attempt to explain...

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  NEW: I have finally enabled comments function on the blogletter! Quite a few people have requested this, so now it exists 💚 Look forward to conversations. It’s only enabled for people who are subscribed (both free and paid, though), so if you want to join the discussion, sign up! https://in-between-days.ghost.io

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  You'd have to be hiding under a rock with your fingers in your ears not to notice that degrowth in some for or another is coming, whether we like it or not. Better to choose our path. Here I propose Direct Action as a liberatory, emancipatory, fun and joyful path to degrowth https://in-between-days.ghost.io/direct-action-for-degrowth/

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  RE: https://aus.social/@timhollo/116416653663496882 #degrowth #DirectAction #anarchism #democracy

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  It's almost as though it might be useful for those in power to keep us arguing about what words we can and can't use. instead of, you know, doing politics. https://in-between-days.ghost.io/globalise-the-hows-your-father/

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  Of all the symptoms of global systems collapse, the one that terrifies me the most is this. I need meds to keep me able to move. I’ll grind to a halt without them. For some friends, it’s life and death. As we let go of some of the old world, please let us keep meds https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03-18/middle-east-war-medicines-supply-costs/106465132

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  On movements in time On seeking direction in a directionless world On progressive nostalgia, transgressive conservatism, and the possibility of simply choosing to be free This is in some ways my deepest post yet, and certainly the first that dives into being a PhD candidate https://in-between-days.ghost.io/movements-in-time-between-progress-and-degrowth/

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  Best. News. In. Years. https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/apr/07/ben-roberts-smith-arrested-brs-australian-soldier-sas-alleged-war-crimes-ntwnfb?utm_term=69d4652808d932cf7a6779db5198b1ca&utm_campaign=GuardianTodayAUS&utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&CMP=GTAU_email

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  Some thoughts on Ben Roberts-Smith, impunity, violence, and the continuing collapse of norms and institutions. And Hannah Arendt, of course. https://in-between-days.ghost.io/impunity-still-has-some-limits/

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  Since it appears we’ve had a reprieve from Armageddon and can live to fight another day, now feels like a good time to re-up this recent piece of mine, teasing out the necessity and limits of left populism. What do we do if our movement critiques the system as broken but needs the system to work? https://in-between-days.ghost.io/zohran-zack-and-the-necessity-and-limits-of-left-populism/

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  This coming Thursday evening, I’m running a session for the Degrowth Network Australia on Direct Action as a path to Degrowth (and broad economic, social and political transformation) Register here: https://events.humanitix.com/strategy-workshop-i-does-degrowth-need-more-focus-ted-trainer

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  New blogletter in which I think about the rise of One Nation with the help of @RebeccaSolnit’s new book (and Hannah Arendt’s old ones) https://in-between-days.ghost.io/inexplicable-monsters/

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  And the frantic excitement about possible outcomes from COP is building. Outcomes which we all know will change nothing. Here's my latest, explaining why we need to withdraw our consent from this system and make the COPs obsolete. Don't forget to subscribe https://in-between-days.ghost.io/all-climate-cops-are-b-stards/